Ten Tips To Make A Legacy Data Center More Energy Efficient

Many companies are aggressively pursuing energy-saving strategies, coalescing around a new marketplace paradigm to go, buy, and sell green — a message that often comes from the boardroom. Until recently, however, data centers remained a special case. The typical mission critical facility is a large consumer of energy, representing the lion’s share of facility operating costs. But reliability and availability requirements hampered efforts to improve energy efficiency.

In reality these goals are not mutually exclusive. In fact, as power densities push the limits on what can be supported by cooling technologies, energy efficiency can now be a first-step solution